tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78059512059889650842024-03-13T17:24:10.020+05:30E-Soch - New thoughts for New IndiaHello there!! this blog has my thoughts on everything from my life to yours. From local things to the things which affect global citizens. New Thoughts for New India and more.Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-1754208468785680302022-10-01T18:45:00.003+05:302022-10-03T18:54:51.726+05:30Office and then some more<span style="font-family: Handlee; font-size: x-large;"><b>Work from Home was a doozy despite increased productivity, ease of operations, and decreased cost. The companies learned a few lessons while forgetting many and reverting to the old ways. Because anything new is scary. Also, people would like to spend some more time in a few more meetings both local and online than to try a new approach to the things that have been done for the last few years.</b></span><div><span style="font-family: Handlee; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Handlee; font-size: x-large;"><b>As you would know that the normal shifts used to be 12 hours for all the jobs and granted most of the jobs were productions or mining jobs earlier but you get my drift. People fought and fought a bit more to make the 8-hour shift that's a standard now but unfortunately, that isn't the case for everyone. Maybe try talking to the humble guard standing or sitting outside your office entrance whom you have borrowed from an organization. The guards and other support staff are asked routinely to do 12 hours shifts maybe legally but more than likely illegally the company is charged for 3 8-hour shifts but then 2 guys cover the shifts in a day saving the company cost of 1 guard and the 2 guys covering 12-hour shifts they may or may not be paid for the extra 4 hours.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Handlee; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Handlee; font-size: x-large;"><b>And that's the case for all the MNCs all around India so I would count myself lucky that I am asked to work only a 9-hour shift with a 1-hour break and have to clock 40 hours for a week and not something different. But then comes another notion where if you spend more time in the office it's considered more productive while it's anything but that. My brother works in a big MNC as a product manager and during the times when a product is being launched, he routinely works 14 - 15 hours to monitor the calls and complains all the time. How can you expect anyone to be productive when you ask them to do 15 hours shifts with no off time. But that's the norm and that's that is. </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Handlee; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Handlee; font-size: x-large;"><b>I don't know what kind of chaos would erupt when 4 day work week is introduced in India, it's already a reality in a few countries and the result is increased productivity and happiness levels in the population. But who cares about the populations and the workers. We are just a cog in the machine and we have never worried about the machines.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Josefin Slab; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-54199769984752148822022-09-08T04:48:00.000+05:302022-09-08T04:48:12.753+05:30Visual Novels - My Current Passion<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;">Hey beautiful people! how are you doing? How do you like to pass whatever time you get for yourself? What do you do for entertainment? Do you lose yourself in the endless well of content that is now youtube? or do you like to scroll and binge through what Netflix and other OTT platforms offer? Do you maybe like to read? Do you play video games? I do all these or did and these all are my passions and loves. I love reading but most of my time is right now devoted to another kind of reading which is 'Visual Novels'. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;">VN or Visual Novels as the name is a novel or story supported by photos and animation or just photos. Most of the time these are rendered images so the updates take a long time but still we have 1000s of these VNs and games that have been completed. Now fair warning most of these VNs are what is classified as adult content but then most of the wonderful games for PS4 as well so there's that. I will be 40 this year so I am way above the age limit and enjoy whatever content I want. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;">Now, these games or VNs offer varied stories, and many a time they allow branching or choosing your own adventure kind of a story allowing for different endings based on the choices you make. And yes they take full use of Adult nature and most of these VNs include sexual elements in their executions but there are so many VNs where the main focus stays on stories and I have enjoyed so many beautiful stories through these VNs that now for me Sexual interactions are no longer the primary focus for me but rather the beautiful interaction between the characters and I love reading through the lines of dialogues where people just talk about different things. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;">I found these VNs during the first lockdown of the 2020s and they grabbed me immediately now I love playing these games and though there are multiple platforms the stories are told and there are different types of games and stories but my favorite is definitely VNs and I hope to enjoy reading through this medium as well. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;">So while I enjoy my time the way I like you should do the same. 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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"> I have been absent from my blogs and you can call it laziness or lack of motivation but it's also the fact that I am sometimes hesitant to say what I want to say even though not many people read these posts but it's still public so maybe it's better to moderate the things we say to everyone.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"> My last post on this blog was maybe more than a year ago and it's not just this blog but every blog that I have there are no stories on my short stories blog, no photos on my photography blog, no thoughts on my ideas blog, a few book posts on my Books blog and nothing on my movies blog. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"> Yeah I am an idiot, I can't manage to keep one blog active and I have multiple blogs but I tried keeping one single blog but then I was always hesitant about where to put what kinds of posts there so that gave the fruition to the idea of blogs focused on a few ideas. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"> So yeah now you know why I have so many blogs and let's come now to the title of the post, why have I been absent, well it's life ain't it? I have been working and then the weekends are mostly busy with either the photoshoots or shopping trips. I have been reading, watching movies, or simply on Youtube in my free time, and yeah most exciting update has been that I have started using fountain pens again and have got many beautiful pens and inks and I love writing in alternate inks on my pages. Yes, I have been finally getting back to writing as well after many years of just typing. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUBzsXuQAJX3fzztQMKvLmr0qdhB9CNtYCX9i33A_7GKKHQYh4dr9TAK7pchQzGhSln00QteakUl6Y6q4b5AYUKNjLUiJ5OFRkTMWVf8DQgz340Os_CX3WH1SMekXPj1Q6OuRXtGcoeaqDkZ0gHchQoFX3TEVb8a0PNkhJU1D5q-fWKp_WWe41V6BJ/s4000/IMG_20220606_173728.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUBzsXuQAJX3fzztQMKvLmr0qdhB9CNtYCX9i33A_7GKKHQYh4dr9TAK7pchQzGhSln00QteakUl6Y6q4b5AYUKNjLUiJ5OFRkTMWVf8DQgz340Os_CX3WH1SMekXPj1Q6OuRXtGcoeaqDkZ0gHchQoFX3TEVb8a0PNkhJU1D5q-fWKp_WWe41V6BJ/w225-h400/IMG_20220606_173728.jpg" width="225" /></a></div> For the first time since I started my blogs, I wrote my first stories in notebooks and have not typed them yet. I have had a few books published in the Kindle book store and hopefully, these analog stories would be the first short stories published only in the books and available nowhere else. The level of distraction is so high that every time I would sit on the computer I would pivot to something else and the book hasn't moved beyond the prologue yet. So I thought to write it but was never happy with even the Rollerball Pen, then I got the Rollerball refill with the Medium nib and that changed the experience and I loved it and then I found the fountain pens again.</span><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIe7KQtVsZOWtzFmA53N4mj8walJmj_Ha7_hTSyyrTiEsOEKMivlzLEs9zJndzLcNuTpJQwJeGUyPt0Jol9GnfXJXtvNK0PEK8MGyA7wWdcHXelAPHQ5SyO7slGf4NmMBZZP_knp8fYWEn0BVbFekR7oJ9s00zx_q7pBmX35E0Z4aX4KYMZZjfvK0T/w225-h400/IMG_20220605_162458.jpg" width="225" /><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglELlb-w8qHLts6iqGz3ZeOGPgYhWvSJQ3aea8zJZr5FEGciWoJ_43I8jk0av0B5BwPXOHAessAYtNgOuRaqA7prg4ezc_cRRO0H6zfK8hwMhTELPT2_w4keLjZ1Jm7c8bTklnrTZ2_qQ1HQObwY-GUr7ZF48l8j26ZzNWVs2MPksddhMxjwJkPY2G/w225-h400/IMG_20220524_043117.jpg" width="225" /><span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"> <span> </span>These are a few pics of my fountain pens and love them dearly. I have pens varied between 35 Rs. and much more. They have different colours and different types of nibs. I have learned that I like the nibs that are Medium and beyond better. I try to write at least two pages a day and thankfully I have been able to continue that practice for close to three weeks now and I would like to continue that to make sure that my pens are in rotation and in use. So I might be absent from my blogs but I am present in my life and you should also find something that gives you joy to make the life worthwhile.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Josefin Slab; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglELlb-w8qHLts6iqGz3ZeOGPgYhWvSJQ3aea8zJZr5FEGciWoJ_43I8jk0av0B5BwPXOHAessAYtNgOuRaqA7prg4ezc_cRRO0H6zfK8hwMhTELPT2_w4keLjZ1Jm7c8bTklnrTZ2_qQ1HQObwY-GUr7ZF48l8j26ZzNWVs2MPksddhMxjwJkPY2G/s4000/IMG_20220524_043117.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><b style="font-family: "Josefin Slab"; font-size: xx-large;"><br /><br /><br /><span><br /></span></b></div>Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-23635637953630433002021-02-19T06:15:00.001+05:302021-02-19T20:44:32.602+05:30My First Crush<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span> <span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Courgette;">Let me tell you a short story from my past, a short story that would be similar for many other people as well. Well, it's more of a memory than a story this is the story of my first crush. Like all the first things I remember most things about crush but as it happens for me nothing came out of it sure but feelings and emotions are like that Stupid they don't understand the logic.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette; font-size: x-large;"><span> </span><span> I was 16 years old and met her in the tuition class. I was this nerdy, thin, dark, underconfident kid and she was beautiful, fair and cute and all that. Of course, we became friends after few days and the classes became enjoyable and I was eager to join the class and paid full attention and it didn't hurt that the trainer was good and we learned a lot from the classes as well.</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span><span> No names yet or ever because what's the point now also no need to be hung up on the names, she was beautiful and I was smitten. Well you know even 16 I was still a kid and so was she so used to dress as such in frocks etc. There was another girl in the class and two other guys and I was friendly with all and it's more than likely that other guys also had a crush on her. But I only knew about myself. I had started writing few poems by this time and during this time I wrote my first romantic couplet but, no, not going to write them here.</span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span><span> I was young and stupid, I was happy in our day-to-day interaction and would walk together after the tuition class and it was enough for me. One day I blurted out - </span><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">"You should wear Indian clothes sometimes."</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Why?" She asked</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">"I don't know, I just wanted to see you in Indian clothes."</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">"OK, I will see" She replied</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>A few days later we were walking back home after the classes and suddenly we were stopped by a couple of guys. And of course, they threatened us telling us to stay away from the girls and my friend asked them why should we do so, and thump a slap hit him and another one for me, my first and last slap ever from someone other than family.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> We never saw the idiots again and our routine continued and now I would sheepishly like to tell that I don't remember if it was the new year or the end of our tuition classes but long story short we decided to celebrate the day/evening at the tuition class and I took a camera with me and it was a fun evening and one more thing. She wore a suit (Salwar-Kurti) for the first time in the classes, my request for an Indian dress and she looked stunning as usual. We enjoyed the snacks, danced away on the latest songs for the time. It was was many years ago I am 38 years old now so the camera was a Point and shoot analog camera with a 36 roll reel. No cell phones, no internet, and no social media. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span><span> Soon the classes were over that was our only meeting point and after that, we never met again. Years later I tried searching for her on Facebook but haven't had any success, but I still have the photos from the evening and though there were only 4-5 pics, at least they are there. It is just a memory now, a great memory but memory nonetheless. I thought I saw her in a Gurgaon mall after many years but before I could call her name she was gone from my view. RG you are my first crush and this would be the first time I have narrated this story.</span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courgette; font-size: x-large;"><span><span> </span><span> </span><br /></span></span></p>
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com1New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120.30370526382115415 42.052771199999995 56.924172936178849 112.3652712tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-5342454902562564372021-02-02T03:12:00.001+05:302021-02-02T03:12:27.162+05:30Call it what you want<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Merienda; font-size: large;">So I like the new update to Blogger and all the new features it has brought along. Most of all I like the new and easy way to add the new fonts to the editor earlier I had to modify the font name in HTML to use that font now I added all the wonderful fonts for use later. I am actively using Grammarly to proofread my writing in real-time and it's a fairly good tool even in the free version.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merienda; font-size: large;"> It's just another post for keeping the blog alive and also to share my thoughts, I am not talking about any particular issue here may be a new post for that but apart from that life is okay and lonely playing a lot of games that are more of Visual Novels than a game but I love to enjoy them and most of them have great stories and I have liked most of them and few have made me cry as well, after all, they are novels and yeah these are Adult or Porn games but they come in all shapes and sizes and I am playing the highly rated ones and have found some real gems and maybe I would share talk about them in a video or rather would create a new youtube channel for them.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merienda; font-size: large;"> Life is strange, I know it's the name of a nice game but still, that's true as well but talking about the game Visual Novels aren't the only games I have been playing I also finished the PC version of Horizon: Zero Dawn, I had already played it on on PS4 Pro but playing it on my PC with great graphics and the faster frame rate was too good to miss. If you haven't played it then do not miss the chance and grab it on Playstation 4 or the PC, it's also fairly cheap on Steam now. Also if you haven't played the "Life is Strange" series of games them try them they are Adventure games. There are 5 games in the series and it was released in episodic form. One game "The Amazing Adventures of Captain Spirit" is available for free so there is no reason to skip that also most of the time the first episode is available for free so that you may try and then decide if you want to get further episodes or not. These games focus more on the story rather than graphics and this series of games all are based around people gaining some abilities. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merienda; font-size: large;"> And just like that, the update became a talk about the games but why shouldn't it this is taking most of my time nowadays more than reading after all a Visual Novel is also reading and I am reading that a lot but unfortunately can't track that on GoodReads :) I will tell you a secret I found the porn games by accident but now I enjoy their story part more than the porn part and enjoy stories in fact many games allow a decision-based storyline and I have played those games like a romantic movie and loved the experience, and then after few months playing with a walkthrough to get the best endings that's also something I do rather than struggling with myself I would rather use cheats or walkthroughs after all I have got only limited time like everyone else. Currently, I am playing "Retrieving the Past" created by MrKnobb it's again a visual novel that has been released so far in 3 seasons and it's an action-adventure visual novel with great graphics, it renders but very realistic and like most similar games there are few animations. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merienda; font-size: large;"> So far so long then people don't wanna keep on typing, take care and enjoy the week.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Merienda; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120.30370526382115415 42.052771199999995 56.924172936178849 112.3652712tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-60925467190086219042021-01-18T22:02:00.004+05:302021-01-18T22:02:50.979+05:30Here we go<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Architects Daughter; font-size: x-large;">H</span><span style="font-family: Architects Daughter; font-size: large;">ere we go again, another day and another post full of ramblings and that ought to happen after all a thought piece is just that, something is written from your thoughts and we all know that we can't control our thoughts and it's one of the great mysteries that scientists have devoted decades to understand and still isn't near finding it out. Well, we would leave the talks to scientists and research with the scientists, and let's talk about normal life, something that you and I live through.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Architects Daughter; font-size: large;">The new normal, work from home, only go out for essentials, wear a mask when out, etc. Nowadays I only go out in select cases one scenario would be if I need to get supplies or eat something and the second is if I have to go for photography. I am happy to say that for the last two Sundays I have been able to go out for photography again. Last Sunday it was a Photowalk and yesterday it was a small fun little session with a friend and model.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Architects Daughter; font-size: large;">Another normal is how the time is passed currently it's either live cricket or highlights, little reading, a lot of gaming, and some youtube or some other streaming site. I might have mentioned it but here I am enjoying Visual Novels how days so that can be considered reading if so then it's going great but if you talk about actual books that are going on super slow nowadays.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Architects Daughter; font-size: large;">Also, I like this font, I love the new update to the site done by Google and the option to add all these fonts earlier I had to change the font in the HTML code now I have added so many wonderful fonts. So till next time, Enjoy!</span></p>Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120.30370526382115415 42.052771199999995 56.924172936178849 112.3652712tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-17388060721180490262021-01-14T23:19:00.002+05:302021-01-18T21:26:43.606+05:30Well, Hello There!!<a href="https://www.indiblogger.in/post/well-hello-there" title="Top post on IndiBlogger, the biggest community of Indian Bloggers">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;">Well, Hello There, yes you, the person reading this, how are you doing? I am in limbo and just enjoying the fruits of others' labour and enjoying all the different kinds of media and a lot of wonderful stories. My last blog post here was last year on 20th March just before the lockdown, and so far the status quo has continued, and it looks like life is going to change in more than a few ways. During this time I have read fewer books than I would have read in a normal year as the bulk of my reading was done during my commute to and from the office and that is gone now. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;">I have finished many games, started playing more games on my PC rather than my PS4 Pro, discovered an entirely new type of games and enjoyed them so so much that I lost my sleep and appetite for about 2-3 weeks, I still enjoy those Visual Novel games but no longer play them for all the time.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;">I got a new Internet connection by Airtel and it's an Xtream fiber connection with speeds of 200 Mbps download and upload and it's unlimited to boot. I just love the connection before this I was using Den broadband for the longest of the times with 100 Mbps download speeds that were very good but the issue was that it had a FUP of 800 GB and then the upload speed was just 5 Mbps that wasn't enough for me as I still plan to continue my youtube channel.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;">Oh, yeah! in this lockdown period I also finally uploaded few videos to my youtube channel. But like most things, the last video was uploaded on 31st March last year and so far I still have to produce the next video. Along with laziness, there were few issues that were impacting the audio quality, hopefully, that has been fixed now and soon I would hopefully be able to upload more videos. And maybe talk about my books as well. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;">Oh Yeah! that's another thing that finally happened last year I am now a published author so that only e-books are available on the Amazon Kindle store but I have two books out now One is a collection of my short stories and another is a collection of Hindi Poems where I have 4 poems. Thanks to my best friend Alankar this dream has been completed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;">Last year along with the multitudes of events and weddings had to be postponed due to the lockdown. One of these weddings was that of my sister who was supposed to get married in June but that had to be postponed to November but I couldn't join the wedding as I contacted COVID-19 just one week before the wedding.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;">Yup, I managed to get infected with COVID-19 and had to deal with 8 days of fever in a row but finally recovered and well continuing with the life now, I have spent most of the time since lockdown alone as wife and kid left just before the lockdown and then they were stuck there as the travel services were on hold. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;">Another hobby I picked up during last year is for Fountain Pens and I have collected many fountain pens and many-colored inks and enjoyed practicing writing again as most of the writing I do now is via keyboard and on the computer or the mobile phones. But haven't been able to practice for some time, but will be starting the practice again. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;">And that's it for now because I can keep on writing but should keep somethings for the next posts as well. Take care you all, Wash your hands, and wear a mask.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120.30370526382115415 42.052771199999995 56.924172936178849 112.3652712tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-8036243467631447952020-03-21T06:47:00.001+05:302020-03-21T06:47:21.349+05:30Let's Work from Home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And with that wonderful title let's begin our first post of this blog for this year. Just like that in the blink of an eye more than a year passed since the last post here. What did we do? Well a whole lot of things and then nothing much, Nothing at all. Or if you wanna be positive then I did a whole lot of things in my life and enjoyed the time but the reason why the blogs were left neglected would be simple laziness after all these are not very high-brow articles that are well researched or whatnot. But rather these are simple musings on a possibly deranged mind. Now that's a peaceful thought to leave dangling in one's mind, eh?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">So, what else happened in the past year is worth repeating well too much honestly, and nothing too. Well, right now the entire world is in the grasp of the fear of the Novel Corona Virus which originated in the Wuhan district in China and is spreading across the world, and though there's no cure available right now, all the countries are trying multiple ways to limit infections. From quarantine to mandatory checking to more but this is more like the current news not the review of the last year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Well, last year went something like this I read a lot of books, clicked a lot of photos, and created a new Instagram page for my photography, well while you are here then kindly follow me too (https://www.instagram.com/thevikas.show) :). The family is doing fine cousin got married last year. He is happy and I am happy for him. I finally build an awesome computer for myself which will help me in editing photos and hopefully soon videos. I have plans to start not one but two youtube channels. One would be focused on photography while others would be the Booktube channel. Hopefully, by the time, I can collect my energy for the next post I would have more information about the channels and hopefully links to a couple of videos too. </span></div>
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0Delhi, India28.7040592 77.10249019999999128.2581432 76.457043199999987 29.1499752 77.7479372tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-3960704548772462142019-02-14T02:32:00.000+05:302019-02-14T02:32:02.763+05:30Something Something Blah Blah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Procrastination means doing something which delays you to work on something else, which something else may be important as well. For example I am planning on writing a book and I have almost the entire plan and structure ready in my head but so far I haven't put a single words towards starting this book. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>And why do we procrastinate? Because we always like to the things which are fun so that we don't have to do other tasks. Have to finish this awesome book so can't go to market today. Have to play this super awesome game so can't wash the clothes. Watching a riveting show can't move even for a second. Looks like we are hardwired for p</i><i>rocrastination. After all everybody would jump first for a chance to do something fun or entertaining. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why do I write short stories or have so many blogs? I have been asked this question many times. BTW here are my blogs with custom domains</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I had decided to start a blog, my very first idea was to write and share new short stories. But then I had my photos to showcase and book reviews too. But then I needed a blog for posts like these which doesn't fall under Reviews, Photos or Short Stories. So This blog and I have seen so many movies that I wanted to share my thoughts on that as well. So another blog for movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well if I have been regularly able to update these blogs is a different story in itself because honestly no I haven't been able to keep them updated. Hell till last week I had bought custom domains for only top three blogs and I wasn't able to keep even them updated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I am again trying to ensure that the blogs are regularly updated and to motivate myself I have bought 2 more custom domains which you can check above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In any case not only me but everyone should get a chance to express themselves and you shouldn't be stopped too. So go online and get yourself a blog too no need to get a custom domain just yet. Write or post whatever you like. No need to create 8 different blogs like if you don't wanna do that. Create a blog and keep different pages for different content. Don't be confused about the platform Be in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank">www.blogger.com</a> or <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">www.wordpress.com</a> or any other service which allows you to express yourself. And work towards your dreams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I have still not shared the reason why I blog or write. Honestly so that I can hone my writing and also that I can be moderately famous. After all who doesn't want to be famous and I may be 35 already but my dream of photography and being a writer won't die. I try to keep the photography going on and hope to write kind of a book sometimes in coming years but till then I would keep on updating these blogs and hone my writing skills because if I can't write 500 or 1500 word posts how can I hope to write a 300 page book. So I would Keep on Blogging you guys Keep on Reading.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Enough about the facts about Rats/Mouses, they are disgusting, I am not counting the white ones with red eyes they are cute and cuddly. I am talking about Brown or Black rats/mouses which infest your mouse eating through your food, clothes, books, wires etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">No one wants to have a pesky thing running around your house, well may be your baby but they are adorable and a bundle of joy some of the time. The main reason for writing the post is because when I told the same thing to my co-workers they made tsch tsch noises saying you shouldn't kill a mouse. Really? Well you should because of all the reasons above and few more. So next time if you catch a mouse don't release it in wild alive as it will then go and trouble some other house just like you tolerated the mouse in your house for few days just forget the cage outside for couple of days and it should take care of it and obviously it will be most effective in killer summers of India.</span></div>
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120000005228.3907261 76.886297700000057 28.8371521 77.531744700000047tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-19394637263922956252018-06-04T00:13:00.000+05:302018-06-04T00:13:06.574+05:30Sunday - 03-June-2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: "bradley hand itc", "bradley hand itc", monospace;">Well now I have Netflix and other streaming services available that I have lot of backlog of movies to go through and for a very long time I am just not too interest to watch Bollywood movies so you can always find me when a Marvel movie releases Okay also DC movies. I love Comic Books so movies based on those is a given and then I would also watch few Hollywood movies but this Sunday I didn't do any of those things hell I didn't even left the house today :)</b><b style="font-family: "bradley hand itc", "bradley hand itc", monospace;"> </b></span></div>
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120000005228.3907261 76.886297700000057 28.8371521 77.531744700000047tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-52371106138396035662018-06-03T00:09:00.000+05:302018-06-03T00:09:29.118+05:30Report - 2nd June 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc" , "bradley hand itc" , "bradley hand itc"; font-size: x-large;">As I write it there are only 11 minutes remaining in this day. Well after I emphatically wrote in the last post thing went a little awry from there as it turned out that my phone went dead as it was no longer charging and it looked like that I would have to be without a smartphone for sometime.</span><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc" , "bradley hand itc" , "bradley hand itc"; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc", "bradley hand itc", "bradley hand itc"; font-size: x-large;">I went to the service center and was told that the motherboard was fried and it impacted the charging so it would have to be replaced and the cost was to be 25% of the phone price and I walked dejected from there to the numerous mobile repair shops in the area but to no avail and as it was a Friday I made my way to the mall hoping to see Bhavesh Joshi Superhero but in that mall there were no shows :(</span><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc", "bradley hand itc", "bradley hand itc";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc" , "bradley hand itc" , "bradley hand itc";"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then I got a call from a shop telling me that they will be able to repair my phone, I was little bit hopeful.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc" , "bradley hand itc" , "bradley hand itc";"><b>So finally coming to today well I woke up and reached the shop and they told me that my phone would be ready in about 4-5 hours. So what else would I do I made my way to the near by Wave Mall and bought a ticket to the movie. But it was lunch time so I decided to head to food court as there was some time to the movie but the food counter had another idea with their extremely shoddy and slow service and some items missing and other items cold it wasn't a nice experience.</b></span></span></div>
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120000005228.3907261 76.886297700000057 28.8371521 77.531744700000047tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-67092868376488664742018-06-01T09:09:00.003+05:302018-06-01T09:17:58.794+05:30Another Day - 1 June 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Well this new month begins today but as I work in US after hours, work wise I am still working on 31st May.</span><span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">Well planning planning planning, "Plans maketh Man" or something. I have never planned my day or week certainly never a whole month. Well may be I did when I participated in A-Z April challenge way back when.</span><span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">So this month's aim is read more, Do more <a href="http://www.onephoto.in/" target="_blank">Photography</a>, Watch more movies, Watch more TV series and revive my freaking blogs like I am going about doing it for now.</span><span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Well to tell you the truth Reading and watching is going strong. Photography is little hampered only due to the super hot summer. But blogging now that was the thing which was most impacted by me without internet for a whole long year. Can you even believe that?</span><span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">Well that's a story for another day! for now let's just say that I am in better place now with High Speed internet, Subcription to both <a href="http://www.netflix.com/" target="_blank">Netflix </a>and <a href="https://www.primevideo.com/" target="_blank">Prime</a>. Loads of Books. So I am settled now.</span><span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Well at least I hope so. I keep on thinking about new stories but somehow don't type them out thinking of using them later. I am reading the books but not updating <a href="http://www.keeponreading.in/" target="_blank">my blog</a> with the reviews even though I am ranked 5th in all time list of reviewers in India over at </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/" style="font-family: pristina, pristina, monospace; font-size: xx-large; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">www.goodreads.com</a><span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"> (Shoutout to them).</span><span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">Well I need to make more efforts and actually open the laptop at home and then instead of watching <a href="http://www.netflix.com/" target="_blank">Netflix </a>again and enjoying I would have to open and update my blogs.</span><span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">After all I used to be in top 20 blogs in Bhopal who says I can't achieve that again in this town of bloggers which is Delhi. So I am pumped up and hopefully would be able to convert this start of month eagerness to month long phenomenon.</span><span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "pristina" , "pristina" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">Shabba Khair, Good Bye, See you soon, Keep on Reading, Keep on Clicking and Keep on being awesome. May June be your best month.</span><br />
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120000005228.3907261 76.886297700000057 28.8371521 77.531744700000047tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-63533947512821929092018-05-31T17:11:00.001+05:302018-05-31T17:12:30.021+05:30Block of Every kind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may ask, what's up?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But nothing's happening</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So that's what's up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looks like I have all kind of blocks in my mind, writer's block, photographer's block, Reader's block, blogger's block </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am not being able to update the blogs even sparignly. Haven't been ablet to write a new story for around a year now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thankfully now at least I was able to go out and click photos but those photos are just sitting on the harddrive unprocessed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thanks to Indiblogger finally I got to update this blog and I manage to update my photography blog here and there but book review blog is also stuck. I hope to revive them but it might take me some time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Till then I would take small mercies wherever I can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Summary: A significant percentage of urban travellers prefer
booking flight tickets online usually on mobiles due to several advantages,
prime being convenience. <a href="http://cleatrip.com/">Cleatrip.com</a> is a one-stop destination for domestic
and international flight ticket bookings anytime, anywhere. One can book
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Travelling by air is an integral part of business and
leisure trips these days, and every traveller wants to make sure that he gets
the best possible deal. When it comes to booking flight tickets online, there
are a number of ways to do so. In today’s tech-savvy world, the most popular
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to online methods due to the fact that a significant number of urban population
is always hooked on their mobiles for all kind of information, be it daily news
or searching for the best holiday destinations. A lot of travellers are using
travel apps and online travel portals for bookings as they give them instant
access to a vast selection of flights along with prices. Now booking a flight
ticket is as simple as 1-2-3 with online ticket booking sites. Within minutes,
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agency like Cleartrip comes with more advantages then you know. At a recent
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over the other players in the market. He said “Besides offering convenience,
our travel portal offers innumerable cheap flights to various domestic and
international destinations. We are customer-centric and offer attractive deals
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-1061001097004758402016-07-30T07:09:00.000+05:302016-07-30T07:09:00.586+05:30Gurgaon, Millennium City?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had seen the trailer on the Tuesday 25th July 2016 but the full movie or rather extended trailer was released on Thursday 28th July 2016. Am I talking about any movie here?<br />
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Sadly!! No, I am talking about my beloved adopted city and the Glitzy Millennium City Gurgaon. While the city is full of tall buildings, large and expensive houses and luxury malls the things we lack are the most important.<br />
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You still don't get uninterrupted electricity in most of the areas, you can't even get an internet connection in some areas of gurgaon (Some Cyber City, eh?) then there comes the whole matter of infrastructure and Civic Administration. There are no roads to speak in few areas though work is going on but that is too little too late. I was in Gurgaon back in the year 2006-2007 and I came back here in 2015-2016. In those 9 years Gurgaon changed a lot, new areas sprung up, new malls and roads are better now and also public transport does exist here now. So far so good.<br />
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So how come such achievements go down the toilet when we have heavy rains just for few hours. Since I have some back to Gurgaon along every main road there is work going on for Deep Sewer and Gurgaon Municipality claimed to have spent around 5 crore rs cleaning the sewers and waterways and such and yet when it rained for an hour on Tuesday few roads were filled with enough water to bring the traffic to the crawl and after all why not when there was more than a feet of water along the entire strech of the road which hampered movement and stopped few luxury cars in their way.<br />
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And then came the extended trailer for this show of mismanagement Thursday 28th July it rained heavily for few hours. I enjoyed the rain from inside my house with my wife on my side and loved the rain which brought relief from the heat and humidity. But all the euphoria vaporized as soon as left for office at around 7 PM. As soon as I left the main gate of my colony I could see the road covered in rain water, well that was normal. I moved ahead and noticed that the entire service lane was covered in more than a foot of water - Failure all the way. I still braved ahead mind you on my bike in 1 foot of water with other vehicles cars and such moving slowly too. Somehow I reached and main road and amazingly even though it was slightly on higher ground it was also covered in same level of water as the service lane again wonderful drainage system .. Failure, Failure and Failure all the way.<br />
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<a href="http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindia/don%E2%80%99t-come-to-gurgaon-cops-say-after-snarls-waterlogging-schools-shut/ar-BBv0Hak?li=AAggbRN&ocid=spartandhp">http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindia/don%E2%80%99t-come-to-gurgaon-cops-say-after-snarls-waterlogging-schools-shut/ar-BBv0Hak?li=AAggbRN&ocid=spartandhp</a><br />
<a href="http://www.india.com/news/india/gurgaon-comes-to-a-standstill-after-heavy-traffic-jam-manohar-lal-khattar-blames-arvind-kejriwal-1367543/">http://www.india.com/news/india/gurgaon-comes-to-a-standstill-after-heavy-traffic-jam-manohar-lal-khattar-blames-arvind-kejriwal-1367543/</a><br />
<a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/hundreds-stuck-due-to-watterlogging-in-gurgaon-2941320/">http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/hundreds-stuck-due-to-watterlogging-in-gurgaon-2941320/</a><br />
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My office is merely around 2 kms from my house and yet through the crippling traffic it took me more than hour to travel the distance and that too on the bike, if you were in a car, you would no doubt be in the jam for few more hours for the same distance. Through almost all the way the entire road was submered in the dirty water with garbage mixed for the good measure. Vehicles were stuck all through the road and you could see people walk in the middle with their shoes in their hands.<br />
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Dismal scenes of people and vehicles stuck back to back could be seen on every road, there were even reports of people swimming in the water which was logged on the highway - HIGHWAY!!! Way to go Millennium City. Politicians are busy being politicians and changing name of this city but they should be much more concerned about the city itself and focus on basic facilities before going for other projects.<br />
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-51739791625972505792016-04-12T00:50:00.002+05:302016-04-12T00:50:39.166+05:30Being Farzi... A Farzi Experience<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had read a lot about the Farzi Cafe so when I saw the restaurant/cafe in Cyber Hub, Gurgaon I wanted to go right in unfortunately I had already ate at that time so I just planned on going in next time.<br />
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The next time came on Sunday 10th April 2016, I just drifted towards Cyber Hub I went in to check Smash first and after spending some time in the gaming hub I stepped outside. I suddenly realized that it was a good time to go Farzi.<br />
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I walked in Cyber Hub checking all the places to eat, there it was Farzi Cafe in all it's glory. I walked in and immediately met with the friendly staff. My server was Anup and he was a joy. I took in the ambience and it was lovely work done through the entire cafe as it was done in wood. Entire cafe had an old world charm and the best thing there wasn't a TV in sight.<br />
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I was presented with the menu and as I don't drink, I did away with the drinks menu and focused solely on my tummy so only the food menu. The menu was vast so I needed few moments to find out the order. The staff was awesome.<br />
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For starter I chose Bombay Bhel 2.0, I was promptly informed that since I was alone Bhel would be a little heavy but since I myself am heavy I pointed the same to Anup and thus having only ordered starter for the time being I started reading a book on my mobile.<br />
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I was momentarily disturbed not for my order but a treat on the house, my very first gastronomical treat a sweet dish treated with Liquid Nitrogen I was asked to just chug the treat like a shot it was like an egg with red colour on it. I did as I was told and voilà it melted in my mouth.<br />
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Next came my order Farzi interpretation of Bhel Puri called Bombay Bhel 2.0 and it was a mountain of flavours. I loved it and also it was also treated with Liquid Nitrogen as a powder was sprinkled on the bhels. It was lovely, it was tasty, it was flavourful and it was heavy.<br />
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But I had a little space in my stomach actually a lot so I also ordered a Mains course. After lot of deliberation also because I am vegetarian I chose Good Old Paneer Tikka. but before I could have my Tikka there was again a gastronomical wonder Hajmola on a stick, it was lovely it was tasty and it was there o make me ready for my dinner.<br />
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There came my Paneer Tikka with a Laccha Parantha and there was a gravy as well lot of gravy actually and I was done away with just one Parantha, I was offered more bread too but I was done for, because I don't waste food I finished at least the Tikka and left a lot of gravy.<br />
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It was the time for the check and I was full but before I could get my check I got another treat a mouth freshener a Pan Gujia where Gujia was made of Cotton Candy i.e. Budhiya ke Baal and there was Pan Mouth Fresher in it so naturally it was a nice finish to an awesome experience. But that's not all.<br />
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The bill was presented in a Farzi Typewriter. In all I would love to visit Farzi Cafe again because #BeingFarzi is fun.</div>
Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com2Gurgaon, Haryana 122001, India28.4594965 77.02663830000005928.236067 76.703914800000064 28.682926000000002 77.349361800000054tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-38898299978922880632016-01-05T05:00:00.003+05:302016-01-05T05:00:53.156+05:30Dilemma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"he wants to make money, but he also disapproves of it: Den's dilemma in a nutshell"</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, now that the definition is out of the way, let me tell you what's my dilemma. As a occasional blogger I have few blogs and one of those is a short story blog called <a href="http://www.story-teller.in/">Story Teller</a> now as you already know inspiration can hit us any place and at any time.The problem which I am facing is that I get the story ideas all the time but then again if I post them or write them right away then what if that theme comes up for some contest then what else would I do? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, although I keep a small description of the idea in my phone the posts are still far from the blog because I don't want to commit the idea to the blog making it used and I can always reuse and increase the scope for my personal use the post and idea would no longer be of any use for using in any contest as most of them need a fresh post. Well in the mean time after a very long time I posted two new stories on my blog and also two new blog posts on this blog here after all I thought that the stories may be limited but my thoughts are definitely not limited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After all the blog is called Vikas Khair's Diary, the blog name changed to "The Sixth Sense" to increase the scope but the domain remained the same. So what I will try to do is keep my diary kinda updated with the going on but of course neither it's a proper diary and nor have I considered it such. So the thoughts would be there but no normal diary stuff like I did this and I did that. Well that's enough rambling for a day and if I use all my words in one post what else would I write on the next day and the one after that. So take care you all and wish you all again a Very Happy New Year 2016. </span></div>
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com0Gurgaon, Haryana, India28.4594965 77.02663830000005928.236067 76.703914800000064 28.682926000000002 77.349361800000054tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-11033135523979336232016-01-02T14:49:00.000+05:302016-01-02T14:49:45.205+05:30Happy New Year 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hello Friends and fellow bloggers right off the bat - A Very Happy New Year 2016 to you and your families. May the next year be way better for you than the year gone by. If the year 2015 was great for you I wish you even more success in the year 2016.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For me personally the last year has been a mixed bag well that's the story for every year so not much of a surprise. But many good things happened too:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1. My Short Stories Blog <a href="http://www.story-teller.in/">Story Teller</a> was selected as Top 15 short stories blogs in India for the year 2015, so that was nice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2. Everybody in my family is fine and in good health so that's a positive as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3. I got a new job and moved to a new city. I am now in Gurgaon from Bhopal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">4. My Photography got some traction and I covered many events for Aura Mall in Bhopal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">5. Three years in a row I have been able to achieve my Book Reading challenge with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/">GoodReads.</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">6. As the year ended the family is kinda back on track so hopefully things would be better in the new year. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1. Lost my job in Bhopal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3. Got some nasty bit of fever which kept me down for a week during which the above mentioned theft happened.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As usual we just need to keep our chin up and meet all the challenges head on. Wish you all a very happy new year once again and May the new year 2016 be the year where you achieve your goals and be happy. </span></span></div>
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Vikas Khairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732792647915064715noreply@blogger.com2Gurgaon, Haryana, India28.4594965 77.02663830000005928.236067 76.703914800000064 28.682926000000002 77.349361800000054tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805951205988965084.post-14723537815429528302015-04-17T05:09:00.000+05:302015-04-17T05:09:06.866+05:30Time to Look up to the future<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Monotype, Monotype Corsiva;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> When we talk about the future we are either pessimistic or optimistic about it. What we never are is sure of it. After all the term future itself means that we can't know about it. And we don't have many opportunities to be hopeful about the future if we look at our present.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Monotype, Monotype Corsiva; font-size: x-large;"><b> And when I look at the current scenario in our country it's very hard to be positive about the future. The crime rate all around us is very high and every other day we come to know about one scandal or another. It looks like that politicians are only concerned about securing their seat and about filling their coffers with as much money as possible before their term ends.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Monotype, Monotype Corsiva; font-size: x-large;"><b> But just like night is darkest just before dawn, we have silence before the storm and Things get worse before they get better. I sincerely hope that this is the worst condition our country can reach in and from now on we would be better and do better.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Monotype, Monotype Corsiva; font-size: x-large;"><b> What really fill me with optimism though is my little son and my young brother and his friends and my friends. My son who is only 16 months old is the most intelligent and considerate toddler I have ever seen. He fills my heart with joy when I see his intelligence in action. My son is so courteous from this small age and I would spend all my time with him to ensure that he turns to be the perfect gentleman who knows how to treat people the right way.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Monotype, Monotype Corsiva; font-size: x-large;"><b> My brother who is an aspiring singer uses his band and his friends to do the good through his music and organizes charity shows and his most favorite shows are the ones he does in old age homes and orphanages. Seeing a smile on those lovely lonely faces brings such joy to the heart is it's almost impossible to describe in words.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Monotype, Monotype Corsiva; font-size: x-large;"><b> Almost all of my Friends who married and many of them have become parents. Seeing them being the best parents to their kids and trying to ensure that their daughter or son be the model citizen that our country of future deserves. We have to understand that we have the country all to us and we have to leave a better country and world for our kids better than what we received.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Monotype, Monotype Corsiva; font-size: x-large;"><b>Just like a drop at the time becomes an ocean, similarly I am sure that when all of us would consciously work towards building a better future for us and for our children then no power in world would be able to stop the positive march of progress and prosperity. We all have to stop our negative thoughts and look up collectively towards a common goal of happiness and peace. I am sure after all that all of us want the same thing in life. A peaceful family life with the ones we love.</b></span></div>
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